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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1h

Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 2h

Highly recommend this virtual workshop! Alli and Katherine do a great job, and it’s always a fun time!

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h

Morning, theydies and gentlefolk! Today's the day! We'll see you in a couple of hours.

Ignyte Awards 2026: Winners Announcement Oct 3 @ 12pm ET

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 14h

My inking linework is still so, so bad. 😂

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 01/10/2026

ICYMI we're serializing a free light novel and it starts TODAY!

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Grabie, an oversponsored junk art brand, was caught using AI two years ago, tried to DARVO and use human artists as shields, and is still using AI. Remember that when you purchase art supplies. youtube.com/shorts/FkcPO...

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GRABIE still using AI - Happy 5th Anniversary!

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 01/10/2026

Just went through this list and basically ordered almost everything Please also read @freyamarske.bsky.social's amazing Bodies of Magic (medicine school plus five disaster students plus murder), @everinamaxwell.bsky.social's Call me Traitor (two unreliable narrators/disaster stabby lesbians)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As much as I will always love quartz, in this moment when generative AI companies are doing their best to make all my art valueless, I have to choose graphite. Give me a graphite stick and some paper, and I can make something wonderful that no one’s ever seen before.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My novel, THE NIGHTWARD, is on sale! The ebook's only $1.99 on Barnes & Noble, Bookshop & Amazon. Sale probably ends soon, so if THE WITCHER + Caribbean mythology + Fury Road sounds good, go get it! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nightw... bookshop.org/p/books/the-... www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN

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The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1)

Amazon.com: The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1) eBook : Garcia, R.S.A.: Kindle Store

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 27/09/2026

Books readers love but don't recommend (or warn people away from even while recommending): A thread. Hi, I'm AK, and I write a series people love (privately, in my inboxes) which has won multiple awards and accolades. Here's why people generally don't recommend it. 🧵

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TFW you know a sinus infection is bacterial, but the doctor insists on waiting a week before prescribing anything useful to see if it gets better on its own because “it’s usually viral.”

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If anyone ever wondered why I don’t publish my fanfics, you can look at what’s happening with the Astarion fandom right now. Y’all take this stuff too seriously, and I don’t want any part of that mess.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Give Like Dolly Day! Dolly’s Day 🦋💜 Dolly Parton spent a lifetime inspiring kids to read, inspiring us. Now it’s our turn! Support your local imagination library program. Give like Dolly, help like Dolly. Let’s make her proud ✨

Smiling Dolly Parton in colorful butterfly dress

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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to study Forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A vote for graphite is a vote for one of the cheapest, oldest, most basic art mediums we have, and I think that’s beautiful.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23/09/2026

This was SUCH a fun interview!

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Ale @alepresser.com · 22/09/2026

Ok, time to do some dangerous ~opinions~ on the Tapas shutting down subject. First: I see everybidy going "see, that's why you should not rely on a platform, you gotta have your own website" and my bro in christ, do you have any idea how expensive and HARD it is to have your owm website?

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How tf do I clean cat barf out of the radiator? GDI, Taffy…

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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Behold… your #dRAWRtober art prompts! Anyone can participate, in any medium. Do as much or as little as you like! Art tagged #dRAWRtober will be shared on Halloween day for a spooky extravaganza. (New species to assist your artistry are arriving on the site soon!)

An image listing Halloween-themed art prompts. The background of the image is tan with a paper texture. The upper left corner has a string of decorative bunting flags in orange and green. There is a pale starburst decoration in the upper right corner. The top center of this image has a decorative green tag that reads: 2026 Animal Photo Reference Repository #dRAWRtober

Under the text is a cartoony vector of a black bat.

What follows is the prompt list. All prompts are highlighted in alternating orange and green.
The prompts read:

1. Legs! legs! legs!
2. In the deep, deep dark
3. Now you see me…
4. Frankenstein’s Chimera

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My bread dough is rising! The yeast lives! Maybe it will even be edible!

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Missing NaNoWriMo? Looking for a new writing challenge to fill the void? Check out #FirstDraftFall, our ten-week writing challenge to plan & complete a first draft in the fall - starting on October first!

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#FirstDraftFall - Weeknight Writers

The Weeknight Writers answer to NaNoWriMo, #FirstDraftFall is a challenge to write a first draft in October - December.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 18/09/2026

man he cant equip that shit hes a cleric not a wizard. this DM sucks

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Sara “Blade” Reine @smreine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FREE BOOK: A dark fantasy novel about dying empire, forbidden desire, and how much it hurts to change. dl.bookfunnel.com/45kvhoa2x1 ⚔️ protag is hapless twink ⚔️ surprisingly steamy ⚔️ looks like m/m until it's m/x ⚔️ GoT-style "nobody is safe" ⚔️ viciously hates empire ⚔️ complicated women

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today we're hosting #AskDV (Q&A with literary agents) at 4-5PM ET to prep for #DVpit! Using #AskDV ask participating lit agents your questions about pitching, querying, & publishing! Join us & @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social Alexandra Levick @mwhatnall.bsky.social @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After digging through 300 portfolios, this seems to be a hard ask. I am looking to LICENSE (paid) an image appropriate for a tidal witch. Female character, with elements around the moon and/or water. Non-anime style. If you have this in your portfolio and have the right to license it, please shout!

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Rachel Gutin @rachelgutin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New year, new story day! This story is the vibe I want all of us to carry into the new Jewish year. And for anyone in NYC who was annoyed by this morning’s rain, it was clearly my story’s fault. Enjoy!

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm going to be at the virtual conference Flights of Foundry this weekend! All my panels are on 9-20 in my timezone, & I'll be talking about gender & having the honor of chatting w/amazing people abt neurodivergence & disability. Looking forward to seeing folks at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social !

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m an artist, so I’m going for graphite this round. Every one of my projects starts with graphite and paper, no matter what media the final version will use.

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you have to ask what any of this is, I am begging you not to look it up for your own sanity’s sake. You don’t have to join us in this. You can exist in a brighter place.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 16/09/2026

For other time zones—The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare collectibles, t-shirts, mugs & other fun stuff. Thanks in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why are only the horrible companies hiring right now? Does graphic design even exist as a field anymore? I’m just venting, but it’s bleak out here, folks.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...

Happy author Marissa Lingen, a long-haired white woman, holds up a copy of her book, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I will vote for the forbidden blue slushie.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/09/2026

The senator shall bear contempt hereditary

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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

FYI: The correct answer to a new patient asking about hearing disability accommodations for registration processes that require phone calls should never be, “Just have your husband do it for you.”

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 09/09/2026

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I had disappointing news today at my doctor's appt (pls don't worry), so I want you folks to do something to cheer me up. I very much want the UFO stretch goal on this, so if you're into #solorpg #ttrpg at all, come check out this wholesome, quirky game. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sti...

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From The Town Records of Shadow River Park - Solo Story Game

You are a councilmember of a small town full of weirdness, personalities, and maybe Bigfoot.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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